Talks

Arno Wouters

Upcoming talks

• No talks planned yet.

Recent talks

• 25 August 2017 "De aard van het leven: organisatie zonder teleologie" ("The nature of life: organization without teleology"), Werkgroep Filosofie van de Biologie, Gent.
• 16 November 2016 "The role of the functional view in the life sciences" SFB 779, Leibniz Institut für Neurobiologie, Magdeburg.
• 31 March 2016 "Waarom vrije wil?", lezing voor de Vereniging van Gereformeerde Studenten te Leiden 'Franciscus Gomarus'.
• 22 February 2016 "Human nature in the light of evolutionary theory", gastcollege cursus "The Moral Brain", Department of Philosophy, Leiden University.
• 17 September 2015 "Gazzaniga on Free Will", gastcollege cursus "The Moral Brain", Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
• 19 November 2014 "Het concept 'verantwoordelijkheid', filosofisch beschouwd" Symposium "Vrije wil en juridische verantwoordelijkheid", Afdeling Strafrecht van de Universiteit Utrecht.
• 17 April 2014 "Verklaren in de biologie", gastcollege "ethiek en wetenschapsfilosofie", Wageningen University.
• 5 December 2013 "The Organizational Role Account of Function", Workshop "Metaphysics of Biology", 5 & 6 December 2013, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva.
• 17 September 2013 "When Functions Explain", Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science, 16-18 September 2013, Ghent.
• 24 May 2013 "Een pragmatistische visie op vrije wil" Lezing voor Filosofie tweedaagse van het Emmauscollege Rotterdam.
• 23 August 2012 "Natural selection, self-maintenance and entitlement to respect" Workshop on Teleological Organization: Organisms, Ecosystems, and Artifacts, University of Copenhagen, August 23-24, 2012.
• 22 August 2012 'De problemen die gedrags-, cognitie- en neurowetenschappen inhouden voor onze visies op vrije wil en verantwoordelijkheid'. Lezing voor Masterclass 'Vrije wil: een hersenkronkel?' (Stichting Thomas Moore).
• 8 June 2012 "Waarom zijn we verantwoordelijk voor wat we doen?" Lezing voor Filosofie tweedaagse van het Emmauscollege Rotterdam.
• 18 November 2011 Comments on Bridge's "Moral Rationalism and the Explanatory Role of Reasons" (together with Maureen Sie), Ethics and Explanation, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nottingham.
• 21 October 2011 "Everyday Reasons Explanations" (together with Maureen Sie), Workshop on Everyday Reason Talk, Dept. of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 21-23 October 2011, Leusden.
• 20 July 2011 "Keuzes, redenen en evolutie", cursus 'Brein en Vrije Wil' ISVW Leusden.
• 9 February 2011 "Vrije wil en verantwoordelijkheid in evolutionair perspectief", workshop 'vrije wil', ICLON, Universiteit Leiden.
• 8 October 2009 "Neurowetenschap en Vrije Wil". Lezing voor de Vereniging van Gereformeerde Studenten in Rotterdam (VGSR).
• 15 September 2009 'Brain science and personal responsibility: what is the problem?' (together with Maureen Sie), GAP 2009, 14-17 September 2009, Bremen, Germany.
• 25 August 2009 'Are Neuroscientists Hidden Dualistic Libertarians?', Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering, August 24th-27th, Delft University, The Netherlands.
• 22 april 2009 'Neurowetenschap en vrije wil' (Neuroscience and free will) teaching lecture, secondary teacher training biology (in Dutch).
• 16 February 2009 "The BCN-challenge to compatibilist free will and personal responsibility", Workshop Free Will, Department of Philosophy, Leiden University.
• 23 September 2008 "The BCN-challenge to compatibilist free will and personal responsibility", lunch meeting theoretical philosophy group, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University.
• 14 July 2008 "Brain Science and Personal Responsibility" Metanexus 2008: Subject, Self, and Soul, 13 - 16 July 2009, Madrid
• 28 May 2008 Teaching lecture "Explanation in functional biology" Master Course Philosophy of Systems Biology, Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• 30 November 2007 "Woont de persoon tussen de neuronen?" Researchseminar cognitiefilosofie, Nijmegen.
• 5 november 2007 "Wat heeft Darwin met de teleologie gedaan?" Colloquium Theoretische Filosofie, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
• 27 July 2007 "What did Darwin do to teleology?", International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology 2007, 25-29 July 2007, Exeter (UK).
• 26 July 2007, "What did Darwin do to teleology?" Science and Religion Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, 23-26 July 2007, Lancaster (UK).
• 31 May 2007, Teaching lecture "Different notions of function and their role in explanation in biology", Master course on the "Philosophy of Systems Biology", Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• 10 May 2007, Comments on the paper 'Towards a Control Account of Agency' by Mariam Thalos, Conference Selfhood, Normativity and Control, Nijmegen.
• 29 May 2006, teaching lecture 'Non-reductionism in biology', Master course on the "Philosophy of Systems Biology", Department of Molecular Cell Physiology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
• "Neuroscience and moral responsibility", PPP 2006 (Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Neurosciences), Leiden, June 28 - July 1 2006.
• 20 april 2006, "Organization is What Bridges the Material and the Living Realm", Workshop Causality and Motivation, 20-21 April 2006, Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano (Italy).
• 10 February 2006, co-referaat bij lezing prof. dr. J.A. den Boer "Een neurowetenschapper over het mensbeeld", seminar "De interdisciplinaire studie van religie", Heyendaal Instituut Nijmegen.
• 8 December 2005, "Design Explanation", Séminaire de la Philosophie de la Biologie, L'Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris
• 6 December 2005, "The Functional Perspective of Organismal Biology", Seminar 'La notion de fonction dans les sciences humaines, biologiques et medicales', Action Concertée Incitative Terrains, Techniques, Théories, Paris.
• 10 October 2005, "Het Functiebegrip in de Organisme-biologie", Department of Experimental Zoology, Wageningen University.
• 4 October 2005, "Neurowetenschap en Mensbeeld", Expertseminar 'De (ir)relevantie van de neurowetenschap voor sociale wetenschappen, filosofie en religiewetenschappen', Heyendaal Instituut Nijmegen.

This page was made by Arno Wouters.
E-mail:
Last Updated: 30 August 2017.